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Personal budgets and the workforce implications for social care providers — expectations and early experiences
Author(s)	Kate Baxter, Mark Wilberforce, Caroline Glendinning
Journal title	Social Policy & Society, vol 10, pt 1, January 2011
Pages	pp 55-65
Source	http://www.journals.cambridge.org/sps
Keywords	Social security benefits ; Independence ; Finance [care] ; Personnel ; Recruitment ; Training [welfare work] ; Planning [admin].
Annotation	Explores the workforce-related impacts that adult social care providers envisage, and have so far experienced, from an increase in the number of people using personal budgets to purchase their social care support. Presents findings in relation to financial and workforce planning, care worker recruitment and retention, workforce training and service user-worker relations. Considers the potential implications for providers, care workers, service users and local authorities. (JL).
Accession Number	CPA-110302002 A
Classmark	JH: C3: QC: QM: WK6: QW: QA6
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